International Geographical Union Commission on Health and Environment
The International Geographical Union's Commission on Health and Environment (IGU CHE) comprises of scientist and professionals in the fields of Health Geography, Environment and Public Health (HEP).
IGU CHE Mandate & Strategic Foci:
Members of the IGU Commission on Health and the Environment carry out research on health and health care in the natural and built environment recognizing the importance of gender and diversity in a globalized world. The strategic foci for the mandate period 2016 to 2020 continue to be:
1) the analysis of quality of life with an emphasis on health, health care,
and the environment at various geographic scales;
2) the links among global change, global health and the environment;
3) urban health and the role of migration and immigration.
These foci reflect both the continuation of the previous work carried out by IGU CHE and the strategic aim to further strengthen with our contributions important international initiatives like Future Earth, One Health, Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment as well as the necessary scientific contributions to the environmental health components of SDG agenda. The CHE members continue to represent IGU in the aforementioned and many other international initiatives over the mandate period 2016-2020. They contribute as health geographers to the international efforts to improve global health and global health governance. IGU CHE provides a platform for its members in collaboration with the members of the various national and regional (health geography) specialty groups to discus, define and further develop concepts, conceptual frameworks and curricula related to health geography and the emerging fields of global health and planetary health.
IGU CHE Mandate & Strategic Foci:
Members of the IGU Commission on Health and the Environment carry out research on health and health care in the natural and built environment recognizing the importance of gender and diversity in a globalized world. The strategic foci for the mandate period 2016 to 2020 continue to be:
1) the analysis of quality of life with an emphasis on health, health care,
and the environment at various geographic scales;
2) the links among global change, global health and the environment;
3) urban health and the role of migration and immigration.
These foci reflect both the continuation of the previous work carried out by IGU CHE and the strategic aim to further strengthen with our contributions important international initiatives like Future Earth, One Health, Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment as well as the necessary scientific contributions to the environmental health components of SDG agenda. The CHE members continue to represent IGU in the aforementioned and many other international initiatives over the mandate period 2016-2020. They contribute as health geographers to the international efforts to improve global health and global health governance. IGU CHE provides a platform for its members in collaboration with the members of the various national and regional (health geography) specialty groups to discus, define and further develop concepts, conceptual frameworks and curricula related to health geography and the emerging fields of global health and planetary health.
